Countries
India
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
India
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Old German Language
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Prakrit Language
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
Halo
  
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
maaf
  
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
14.10 million
  
99+
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
sanskrit
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Sanskrit
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
2000 B.C.
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
  
Indonesian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sa
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
san
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
san
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
san
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sans1269
  
indo1316
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Ancient
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Sanskrit and Indonesian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sanskrit and Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and Indonesian language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sanskrit vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Sanskrit vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit Alphabets and Indonesian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sanskrit and Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.